Course Syllabus

This course is intended to provide students an opportunity to learn techniques for the design and development of interactive systems, and to have the opportunity to apply the techniques that they are learning to biomedical contexts. Participating actively will enrich your own as well as others’ exploration.

Your attendance and participation are critical to your success in this class. Please read the readings that have been assigned for each class session prior to the session and be ready to discuss them. You may want to think about questions that you need clarification on, issues that you would like to discuss with your classmates, and how you might be able to apply the material to your interests/work. This will ensure that you comprehend and retain the material. If you have any problems understanding anything that we cover, I encourage you to raise those questions or approach me outside of class.

Students are expected to arrive on time to class. Please let me know if you are not going to be in class. Repeated absences or tardiness will affect your participation grade. You are welcome to use laptops for class-related activities.

Assignment Submission:

Please submit assignments as PDF files via Canvas. Please name each file that you submit using the following convention: LastName_AssignmentName, and ensure that your name appears in the document. For example, if your name were John Smith, you might turn in an ethnography assignment, “Smith_Ethnography.pdf”.

Assignments should be in a standard 12-point font unless otherwise specified.  Please do not skip extra lines (for example, three or four lines) in between sections.

Please submit assignments on the due dates/times indicated for each on the syllabus. Late assignments will be penalized by 10% for each day they are late, up to a maximum of three days. Please discuss with me in advance if you will have a problem submitting an assignment on the day it is due.

Academic Integrity

I encourage you to discuss class material with other students, though the work that you submit should be your own individual work, in the case of an individual assignment; and the work of you and your group, in the case of a group assignment.

If you use material from other sources, please make sure that you give appropriate credit. Any citation format is fine, as long as it is consistent, but be prepared to direct me to a resource that explains the format you use if I don't recognize it. If you need clarification on how to cite sources appropriately, please feel free to come talk to me.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is a useful resource on academic writing in general: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. For more information about academic responsibilities in general, please visit https://depts.washington.edu/grading/pdf/AcademicResponsibility.pdf.

Recordings

This course is scheduled to run synchronously at your scheduled class time via Zoom. These Zoom class sessions will be audio recorded (no video or screenshare). The recordings will be shared with students enrolled in the course to review materials. These recordings will not be shared with or accessible to the public.

The University and Zoom have FERPA-compliant agreements in place to protect the security and privacy of UW Zoom accounts.

Students who do not wish to be included in the recordings are encouraged to speak with me about alternatives to active oral engagement during in-class sessions.

Syllabus Changes

The syllabus/schedule are subject to change due to confirmation of guest speakers, COVID-19 adjustments, and other unforeseen circumstances.  I will send out a course announcement via Canvas if I make a change. The current version will be available on Canvas.

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